[omniORB] Performance Question

[David Riddoch]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Georg Huettenegger wrote:

> > There is no inheritance reason why array cannot be made to do the same as
> > sequence. It is just a matter of a few small changes to the IDL ompiler.
> > I just don't feel bothered to do so because in real applications, it is
> > rarely useful to pass around a large array of basetype when sequence of
> > basetype can do the same job and is more flexible.
> 
> I will try the same thing with a sequence but I would in general think
> such a small change given a high performance boost (for maybe only
> very rare cases) should be worth it.

I've made some mods to do efficient marshalling/unmarshalling of arrays of 
base types.  This will appear in a future version of omniORB (possibly the
next, possibly not).


David